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Perl is faster and more capable than Awk, and is pretty much a superset. So don't bother as long as Perl is ubiquitous.
by emmelaich 5y ago
Perl is faster and more capable than Awk, and is pretty much a superset.
So don't bother as long as Perl is ubiquitous.
- davidgould 5y agoPerl is not generally faster than awk. Obviously there are cases where perl is faster, but for the text smashing that awk is meant for, perl usually much slower, particularly than mawk or recent gawk versions. mawk in particular is shockingly fast.